Versatile jazz guitarist's sample-based outing, produced by the eclectic Hal Willner

So, the greatest album never made has finally been made. Thirty-eight years on from its conception, Brian Wilson has painstakingly gathered up all the shattered mosaic pieces, and with the help of the best little tribute ensemble in the world, The Wondermints, has produced a reasonably faithful facsimile of the bold, ambitious masterpiece that nearly cost him his sanity back in 1967. The resulting work, rigorously road-tested during this year's tour dates, is a 17-track song suite in three movements which clocks in at a second over 47 minutes.

Post-punk road movie, ripe for reassessment

THE VIDEO COLLECTION

Texan renegade follows post-9/11 triumph Jerusalem with more political invective

Riding that train, high on cocaine...Janis and Jerry in 1970

Alexandre Rockwell's graceful '92 satire about a wannabe new-wave film-maker

Strummer and co's finest hour repackaged with the Vanilla Tapes demos and a Don Letts Making of... documentary, The Last Testament, on DVD

It's an odd time to evaluate Paul Simon's solo career in light of his successful 2004 reunion tour with Art Garfunkel. But maybe all that boomer nostalgia needs a little levity, and the sweep of his solo work proves Simon has never dwelled on the past. The Studio Recordings 1972-2000 is that rare bird—an attempt to collect an artist's entire oeuvre.

Howe Gelb's peripatetic lifestyle captured on record